“to shut [aging and the upward years] out, to try to be young, say, at 80, to pretend there’s no old age, then you miss something. You miss a quality that if you don’t have it, you haven’t lived a complete life” (Sarton 1991d, 195).

Taken from “Of Creative Crones and Poetry:Developing Age Studies Through Literature” by SYLVIA B. HENNEBERG